Fact sheet: Eight Years of Progress on Financial Inclusion

Access to safe and affordable financial services enables individuals and families to transfer money and make payments; save to manage income volatility; achieve specific goals; build long-term financial security; use credit to take advantage of opportunities like starting a business; and insure themselves against life’s many risks. Progress on financial inclusion has helped stimulate broad-based economic… Read more on http://africa-newsroom.com/press/fact-sheet-eight-years-of-progress-on-financial-inclusion?lang=en